Download Squad's Jay Savage has posted a detailed tutorial for setting up your Mac with MacFUSE, a tool that gives your Mac the potential to read and write to nearly any filesystem.

Jay's tutorial covers the installation of MacFUSE, then sets it up using SSHFS, a FUSE filesystem that lets you mount an SSH/SFTP directory like a local disk. MacFUSE can also take advantage of ntfs-3g, the FUSE filesystem that provided Linux users NTFS read/write access as described in my top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks. That means ambitious Mac users can now read and write to Windows-formatted NTFS volumes. If all of these wild acronyms are flying way over your head, this tutorial isn't for you, but if you're keen on rolling up your sleeves and doing a lot of Terminal work, MacFUSE looks great. — Adam Pash